cajolery

  • 121léastyhtung — f ( e/ a) cajolery …

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  • 122warzle — Cleveland Dialect List to wheedle, to obtain by flattery or cajolery: they wizzled it out of him , a warzling sort of a body …

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  • 123falsehood — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of honesty Nouns 1. falsehood, falseness, dishonesty; falsity, falsification; deception, untruth; lying, misrepresentation, disinformation, plausible denial; mendacity, perjury, forgery, invention,… …

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  • 124persuasion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. argument, plea, exhortation; conviction; influence, insistence. See belief, cause. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of persuading] Syn. inducing, suasion, influencing, enticing, enticement, exhorting,… …

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  • 125tempt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. entice, cajole, fascinate, lure, decoy, seduce; provoke, defy, incite, appeal, attract. See desire, attraction. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. lure, entice, fascinate, seduce, appeal to, inveigle, decoy,… …

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  • 126sarcasm — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. satire, irony, banter, derision, contempt, scoffing, flouting, superciliousness, ridicule, burlesque, disparagement, criticism, cynicism, invective, censure, lampooning, aspersion, sneering, mockery. Ant. flattery, fawning …

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  • 127soft soap — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. praise, cajolery, blarney. see flattery II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal. Excessive, ingratiating praise: adulation, blandishment, blarney, flattery, incense2, oil, slaver. Idiom: honeyed words. See PRAISE …

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  • 128Falsehood — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Falsehood >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 falsehood falsehood falseness Sgm: N 1 falsity falsity falsification Sgm: N 1 deception deception &c. 545 Sgm: N 1 untruth untruth &c. 546 Sgm …

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